Interrhyme

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To rhyme with each other. intransitive

    "To take a hypothetical example, suppose that words A, B, and C are assumed to interrhyme freely, and that, in a large corpus, B is used as a rhyme word twice as often as C. If the words actually interrhyme freely, then we would expect A to rhyme with B about twice as often as it rhymes with C."

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"To take a hypothetical example, suppose that words A, B, and C are assumed to interrhyme freely, and that, in a large corpus, B is used as a rhyme word twice as often as C. If the words actually interrhyme freely, then we would expect A to rhyme with B about twice as often as it rhymes with C."

Etymology

From inter- + rhyme.

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